Typographic Communications Today
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With over 900 illustrations, including more than 500 in color, this essential reference book serves graphic artists, designers, and anyone involved in design choices. The landscape of typographical decision-making has broadened, enabling effective visual communication through informed manipulation of type size, style, placement, and integration with graphics. This work places contemporary typographic practices in the historical context of 20th-century graphic design while clarifying options available in the new print era and examining emerging technologies within art history. Featuring numerous insightful quotations from leading designers, it serves as a treasury of thoughtful approaches to typographic design. Types and grid systems are illustrated as they are discussed, while lively commentary explores the creative solutions devised by various artists and the new challenges posed by technology. Several chapters focus on how advancements in terminals, output devices, and software have transformed typeface design and usage. The chapter "Bits, Bytes, and Typographic Design" reviews keyboarding, image scanning, and networking, discussing the impact of personal computers and word processing software. It also evaluates major corporate offerings and future possibilities like X-ray chip etching. Edward M. Gottschall, Vice Chairman of International Typeface Corporation and Editor of U&lc magazine, provides this comprehensive explorati
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Typographic Communications Today, Edward Gottschall
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- Typographic Communications Today
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Edward Gottschall
- Verlag
- The MIT press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1989
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 255
- ISBN10
- 0262071142
- ISBN13
- 9780262071147
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Handel, Kochbücher, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Kunst, Spiritualität, Christliche Themen, USA, Bildung, Theologie, Schreiben, Kreativität, Beschäftigung, Okkultismus, Zeichnen, Karriere, Grafikdesign, Druck, Typografie, Etikette, Beruflicher Erfolg
- Beschreibung
- With over 900 illustrations, including more than 500 in color, this essential reference book serves graphic artists, designers, and anyone involved in design choices. The landscape of typographical decision-making has broadened, enabling effective visual communication through informed manipulation of type size, style, placement, and integration with graphics. This work places contemporary typographic practices in the historical context of 20th-century graphic design while clarifying options available in the new print era and examining emerging technologies within art history. Featuring numerous insightful quotations from leading designers, it serves as a treasury of thoughtful approaches to typographic design. Types and grid systems are illustrated as they are discussed, while lively commentary explores the creative solutions devised by various artists and the new challenges posed by technology. Several chapters focus on how advancements in terminals, output devices, and software have transformed typeface design and usage. The chapter "Bits, Bytes, and Typographic Design" reviews keyboarding, image scanning, and networking, discussing the impact of personal computers and word processing software. It also evaluates major corporate offerings and future possibilities like X-ray chip etching. Edward M. Gottschall, Vice Chairman of International Typeface Corporation and Editor of U&lc magazine, provides this comprehensive explorati